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The Slat Abn Shaif Synagogue (; ) is a former Orthodox
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, that was located in
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, in the district of Murqub,
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. The historic synagogue was completed in and became a Lag Ba'omer pilgrimage site for Libyan Jews. The synagogue was demolished during the 1980s.


History

During the Ottoman rule, the building was expanded and became a place of pilgrimage and study of the
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. The synagogue was burned in 1868 by disgruntled Muslims of his growing fame and rebuilt in 1870 by the Pasha of Tripoli by order of the Ottoman sultan. Another fire, this time accidentally, destroyed the synagogue in 1912, when Tripoli has recently been under Italian rule. It was rebuilt shortly afterwards. A synagogue in
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was built on the same model. After the mass exodus of Jews from Libya between 1949 and 1951, Libyan migrants in
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built a replica of the synagogue in Zeitan, a city they founded near Lod. The Zliten synagogue remained intact until the 1980s, when it was destroyed, possibly under the orders of
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, and replaced with an apartment complex.


See also

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History of the Jews in Libya The history of the Jews in Libya stretches back to the 3rd century BCE, when Cyrenaica was under Greek rule. The Jewish population of Libya, a part of the Sephardi- Maghrebi Jewish community, continued to populate the area continuously until mo ...
* Jewish exodus from Libya * List of synagogues in Libya


References


External links


Hebrew website of the synagogue
{{coord missing, Libya 1980s disestablishments in Libya 11th-century synagogues Buildings and structures demolished in the 1980s Synagogues destroyed by arson Former synagogues in Libya Orthodox Judaism in North Africa Orthodox synagogues in Africa Buildings and structures completed in 1060 Religious buildings and structures completed in the 1060s Sephardi Jewish culture in North Africa Sephardi synagogues Zliten